For saving space and soil, this method also has several
other benefits, including no soil-borne diseases, no
weeds to pull and no soil to till, run-of-the-mill side
benefits of soil-less gardening.

Solar greenhouse References

Analytical Spectroscopy Research Group, Spectroscopy Overview, http://www.pharm.uky.edu/ASRG/general_spectroscopy.html Describes the operation of the greenhouse effect both globally and in greenhouses.
Fairey, Philip; An Analysis of Greenhouse Cookpot Design Considerations For Low-Cost Solar Cookers, Florida Solar Energy Center, http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/bldg/pubs/cookpot/ , accessed 3-30-2005.
Giacomelli, Gene A. and William J. Roberts1, Greenhouse Covering Systems, Rutgers University, downloaded from: http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac/research/archive/HortGlazing.pdf on 3-30-2005.
Joliet O., et al.; Horticern - An Improved Static Model for Predicting the Energy-Consumption of a Greenhouse, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 55(3-4): 265-294 Jun 1991.
Kiehl, J.T., and Trenberth, K. (1997). Earth's annual mean global energy budget, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 78 (2), 197–208. Stanford University, Planetary Habitability, Chapter 7 A Clement Climate, http://pangea.stanford.edu/courses/gp025/webbook/07_clement.html Earth Science Web Book which discusses greenhouses.

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